BioShock 3D Mobile Released!

This long awaited game is now available for the Verizon mobile devices.
Release Date: 9th Feb 2010

Click here to see it in the Verizon store.


BioShock 2D Mobile also released for the Verizon mobile devices.
Release Date: 5th Jan 2010

Click here to see it in the Verizon store.
Also, click here for the 2D mobile game review. It got a 7/10.

The 3D review is yet to come as it just got released.

I've been the lead designer for both the 2D and 3D mobile versions, however have been very closely associated with the 3D one as I belong to the 3D studio.

The 3D game has closely followed its console version and tried to do justice to it.

BioShock 3D ran into its alpha stages during recession time and I ended up losing my team members... This meant that the whole design was now on my heads... I literally had to read thru my team's work and redo the designs...

I also saw that a lot of similarities, pop ups, help messages, simple things as such was not implemented. I decided that we should do it. Although I was overloaded with the whole design (plus time was running short), I managed to squeeze these little things inside to get the whole feel!

The redesigning of levels took a toll on me, but I did take 3 ppl's job and still delivered it on time...
This game has given the whole team a lot of learning experience and it has been one of the most tiring yet pleasurable project!

I hope people like the game. We all did and we are honest! :)

Reblogged in The Indian Game Designer

Here comes the Indian Game Designer

Hi All!

I've started another blog. No, this is still going to continue!!

The new blog can be found here.
The new blog is solely for game related stuff, which has now started with my journey...

This one ofc will continue to be my rantings! :)

Office Olympics

So on the friday that went by, we had an Olympics going on at office.

Counter Strike, NFS, guitar Hero, Tele matches and chess were the official games!

Although the name given to it was to remind us of "Olympics", the most important feature of the Olympics was not implemented!

There was just a first prize and points for that studio!

This sucked because we came second in all the games except CS which we won!!

Also, our studio always wins usually! And it really sucked to lose this time..
Oh well, we will take over next time... ;)
After all this we played good ol' Quake III and UT on LAN unoffficially!! It was fun!!
And I never knew I was this good at Quake!! May be all the frustration just poured in.. Ha Ha!!
Also we had Mario Kart racing - multiplayer on the DS.
Forgot to mention free snacks!! Thankfully we could've two rounds.. Boy... I was real hungry!!
Also we had to dress up in our whacky style that day!! I was gonna go for a goth look then changed my mind. Much better to let ppl laugh at me than scare them to death..hehe
Here's the pic:

Ok! alright!
No need to laugh now!! :P

Guitar Hero for PC!!

So, well.. we are having a gaming party at office this friday. Guitar hero is one of the events and it is being hosted by our studio. Today was the practics sessions and I was so regretting that such a nice game was restricted to just the consoles. So my colleague just googled it and guess what!!?
There IS a PC Version!!
Guitar Hero III is launched for the PC.
Ok wait! It was lauched like a year back and no one knew!!
I have never seen the PC version in the market...

Just when my happiness was at its peak, I started finding out the minimum requirements for the game and I was highly dissapointed. My current system (ITS A NICE ONE!) just about matches the minimum requirement of the game!

I've no clue why they need such a high end system to run Guitar Hero!!
Follow these links to read abt it (Gamespot, IGN etc all have it too.. Well Obvious!)
http://reviews.cnet.com/pc-games/guitar-hero-iii-legends/4505-9696_7-32601604.html?hhTest=1
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2973485


fter reading the review I'm in double minds whether to bother buying it and wait for the Wii prices to drop and get the Wii and teh game! ;)